Sir Brian Souter is a Scottish billionaire who made his fortune in buses, as well as an evangelical Christian and a "lay preacher." He's also helping to fund one of the UK's very few crisis pregnancy centers, one that focuses on "repentance" and "forgiveness" following an abortion. That's causing consternation in… »1/19/15 10:55am 1/19/15 10:55am

We all keep forgetting about Dan and Farris Wilks. They seem to like it that way. The billionaire Texan brothers made their money in the masonry and fracking businesses, then poured it right back into some of their favorite causes. Now's a good time to review the work of Farris Wilks' baby, the Thirteen Foundation,… »12/23/14 12:30pm 12/23/14 12:30pm

A reliable voice against abortion, contraception, and really anything that doesn't directly promote the welfare of white Christian landowners, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a talk radio absorbing lunatic who thinks Satan is, like, a real guy. He's also married to a woman who once sat on the board of a… »4/22/14 6:50pm 4/22/14 6:50pm

Crisis pregnancy centers are faith-based nonprofits that like to masquerade as legitimate women's health clinics so they can trick women into hearing their "save the unborn babies P.S. you'll get breast cancer and die if you get an abortion" schtick. NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Foundation exposed some local CPCs — again»8/08/13 8:00pm 8/08/13 8:00pm

The Hyde amendment bans federal funding of abortion. But the North Carolina Senate sees no problem with bestowing $250,000 worth of state funding to an umbrella group of faith-based anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that disseminate dubious medical information to vulnerable young women. Get ready for a deluge of… »5/24/13 4:40pm 5/24/13 4:40pm

Crisis pregnancy centers are faith-based non-profits that set up shop near legitimate abortion providers and/or in low-income areas where women are less likely to have access to reproductive health care and more likely to be susceptible to the false medical information and high-pressure counseling they dole out… »5/02/13 4:00pm 5/02/13 4:00pm

Crisis pregnancy centers are faith-based clinics that masquerade as legitimate women's health centers but are really run by anti-abortion advocates who lure in low-income women with promises of free (and vague) medical care but don't actually provide them with or refer for abortions and contraception. They don't like… »11/30/12 7:00pm 11/30/12 7:00pm

Last year, San Francisco became the first city in California to go after crisis pregnancy centers, faith-based non-profits that are often purposely vague about the services they offer in hopes of luring in pregnant women who expect to hear non-biased information about all of their options, but instead receive… »10/04/12 4:15pm 10/04/12 4:15pm

Baltimore was the first city in the country to try to enact truth-in-advertising legislation against crisis pregnancy centers. The faith-based non-profits, which more often than not use deceptive means to try and convince pregnant women not to get abortions, are reeeeeallly good at defending their bullshit tactics in… »8/15/12 7:10pm 8/15/12 7:10pm

The end goal of every single one of the thousands of faith-based non-profit crisis pregnancy centers across the country is to convince pregnant women not to get abortions, often through disseminating false medical information (abortion causes breast cancer/suicide/ZOMBIES) and high-pressure counseling. (Jesus died so… »6/29/12 11:10am 6/29/12 11:10am

Crisis pregnancy centers, those lovely places that give pregnant women free ultrasounds and then tell a bunch of lies about abortion, receive millions in taxpayer money per year, which is crappy enough on its own. But did you know that many of these taxpayer-funded non-fact based non-health care facilities are also… »6/08/12 4:20pm 6/08/12 4:20pm

Ever the bastion of mercy and forgiveness for wayward women, Catholic church-run charities around the world stand accused of forcing unwed mothers to give up their babies for adoption — or lying and telling them their babies had died and then giving the babies away, anyway. Depressingly, Operation Hand The Baby Over,… »3/27/12 3:20pm 3/27/12 3:20pm

An eagle-eyed reader spotted the above business card on a table at a Barnes & Noble in Annapolis, MD. It's for the Pregnancy Clinic, a crisis pregnancy center that claims condoms don't work and abortion can result in "delivery of a badly burned infant." »3/07/12 1:20pm 3/07/12 1:20pm

San Francisco's city government recently enacted a rule designed to combat so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that are actually pro-life organizations in disguise. Under the new ordinance, the centers will be fined $500 each time they provide false or misleading information to patients. But some pro-life activists… »11/18/11 1:00pm 11/18/11 1:00pm

We've heard about how San Francisco is cracking down on the local pregnancy crisis centers that operate within its jurisdiction, and now we can read all about it in a handy, comic form. Susie Cagle has created "What Every Woman Should Know," an illustrated guide to the current war that's being waged against women's… »10/28/11 4:50pm 10/28/11 4:50pm

A fund set up to defend antiabortion bills in South Dakota against legal challenges is being increasingly bankrolled by out-of-state donors. This year, over half the money donated to the fund came from an Ohio business owner who says "my businesses belong to Jesus." We decided to learn a little more about him. »9/27/11 3:40pm 9/27/11 3:40pm

I was sure all the men in suits in the lobby knew what I was doing. I hadn't expected it to be in an office building, or to have to choose from a list of what felt like a million names to find it. One of those men in suits followed me into the elevator. Still, I took a deep breath and pushed the button that would take… »9/21/11 2:25pm 9/21/11 2:25pm